Seven years Reggie McKenzie was the Raiders GM. Time flies, I tell ya. It wasn’t long after he took over the job that Raiders fans began spouting the ‘In Reggie We Trust’ mantra. What he did to earn that trust is difficult to say.
Early on, he presided over a full scale gutting of the roster. All the big contracts that had been handed out by Al Davis in his last few years as he made a push to win a championship were cut, leaving behind a considerable amount of dead money. And Carson Palmer — the quarterback Hue Jackson traded for was traded away and former Packers backup Matt Flynn was brought in to replace him.